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Delivering cost savings through greater collaboration
...ill maximise savings and value for money according to the recent National Audit Office (NAO)/Audit Commission Report, "A review...only a few designated purchasers. Those bodies tasked with national category management will in...
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The National Audit Office scrutinises public spending on behalf of Parliament. We promote the highest standards in financial management and reporting, the proper conduct of publ...
...Management | International Good Practice &nbs...nbsp; Robert Chote (Chairman, Office for Budget Responsibility), Pro...nger Economy Looking at international examples of best practice, th...Collington, Chief Procurement Officer, Efficiency and Reform Group...
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Fraud Error and Debt: Tackling Financial Loss in Government
...ernment, supported by Cabinet Office, Civil Service World, Experian...ra Moore, Head of Engagement, National Fraud AuthorityAlan Bryce, Head of Counter Fraud, Audit Commission Assessment: measur...Procurement Excellence, Home OfficeAdam Simon, Global Managing Di...
Tackling Fraud in the Public Sector: June 2011
...e 2011. It was organised by the National Fraud Authority and Civil Ser...across the Public SectorCabinet Office minister Francis Maude outlined the findings of the Cabinet Office Counter Fraud team's interim...ael Whitehouse, Chief Operating Officer, National Audit Office
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...projects fail to deliver, and this is more common in the public sector than in the private sector, according to organizations such as the National Audit Office. Here at Singularity...
Accepting danger and facing failure
...blic and career-damaging castigation from a select committee or the National Audit Office. The demands... In this context, it was refreshing to hear Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude tell c...
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NAO says quango reforms will cost twice government estimate
...to a report published by the National Audit Office (NAO) last week.Departments...osts would be £425m, but the National Audit Office says that they will be at lea...work, told CSW.“The Cabinet Office and others have a poor unders...arly,” Davis said.A Cabinet Office spokesperson said: “The NAO...
NAO rejects Grayling attack on DWP report
The National Audit Office (NAO) has defended its report on the Department for Work and Pensions’ (DWP) Work Programme, after welfare minister Chris Grayling said that the NAO...
Analysis_opinion
...ervants. One middle-ranking Home Office official says: “I signed a co...they are not.”However, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude argue...d well into the future, with the National Audit Office reporting that those ch...ably do a deal”.At the Cabinet Office, Maude clearly has few hopes...
Editorial:Resurrecting the duty to challenge
...vil service around Yes, Minister, Blair’s A Journeyand The Thick of It.Some people now acknowledge such problems. At Civil Service Live, National Audit Office chief Amyas Morse and former...
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...verseas to coordinate an international push for better finance skill...Pulham says. However, Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude wants th...ck of the Department for International Development, and new head of...central and local levels: the National Audit Office is expected to provide set st...
...e UK.Nonetheless, budget cuts are challenging: according to the Wales Audit Office, the public sector faces 12....e integration, collaboration, co-operation at a local level and a sub-national level”.Morgan prefers thi...
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A plan of action for plans of action
...site; the development of the National Offender Management Informati...08, Sir John Bourn headed the National Audit Office (NAO), analysing projects great...iver extra projects. The bad: National Offender Management Informa...rvices (NOMS). Aileen Murphie audited the NOMIS scheme, and explai...
...ut the latest estimate by the National Fraud Authority (NFA) puts pu...oject exemplifies the Cabinet Office drive to move away from a cul...t The DfT’s spend recovery audit aims to identify overpayments,...rcise carried out by the Home Office recovered £4m in overpayment...
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...he argued.David Clarke of the National Audit Office said he has examined the Work P...nd suggested that the Cabinet Office should take on the role of pr...ountry.” Michael Wheatley, National Offender Management Service...g and civil society, National Audit OfficeCaroline Cooke, head of...
...ney. Ministers, MPs, and the National Audit Office (NAO) have all noted that th...important not only to gather audited and reliable data, but also...of publishing at the Cabinet Office. “We are working in a polit...rsity consultancy at the Home Office. “Sometimes departments wor...
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The coalition special advisers
...mber 10 DPM Cabinet OfficeBIS DCLG DCMSDECC ...tion FCOHealth Home Office MoDMoJ N. Ireland&nbs...ef of Cameron’s cross-party office he had good links with the Lib...snia. He also has strong international links from his time working i...
Special report: The hard road ahead
...ction within the article:Back Office & IT Procurement ...ile in opposition the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude, unusual...n and the next steps. On back office and local incentives, there is...in the OEP and reports by the National Audit Office and the Chartered Institute o...
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MPs brand chlamydia programme 'wasteful'
The government's £100m chlamydia testing programme has been "inefficient and wasteful", a select committee report has said.The "hands-off approach" of the Department of Health (DH) led to duplication of effort amongst primary care trusts and failed to minimise infection, the chairman of the pub...
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The government got a good price when it sold British Energy, according to a report from auditors, but it is not clear that the sale will guarantee the building of new nuclear power stations.British Energy, the largest independent energy generator in the UK, was sold to EDF Energy for £4.4bn in J...
Tags: national audit office, british energy